Shad Marvasti, MD, an associate professor of family and community medicine at the College of Medicine – Phoenix, discusses the recent surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the Omicron variant.

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Persuading people to line up for shots every few months is probably a losing proposition. About 73 percent of American adults are fully vaccinated, but so far just over a third have opted for a booster. Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, a professor of immunobiology at the College of Medicine – Tucson, is quoted.

Virus-related emergency room visits have set a pandemic record in Arizona, where hospitals are crowded and cases are up even though deaths from COVID-19 have tapered off a bit. Frank LoVecchio, DO, MPH, a professor of emergency medicine at the College of Medicine – Phoenix, attributed the jump to increased testing demand as more people arrive at emergency departments because they don’t know where to get tested.

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Bradley J. Monk, MD, FACS, FACOG, clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the College of Medicine – Phoenix, discusses the emergence and utility of NaPi2b as a target in ovarian cancer.

Donald S. Weinstein, MD, was a founder of the widely admired Arizona Telemedicine Program at the College of Medicine – Tucson.

Kelly Reynolds, PhD, professor and director of the UArizona Exposure Science and Risk Assessment Center at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, explains how makeup can be a source of bacteria.